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Souls are a crucial element in Deadlock, serving both as currency and experience points (XP) for heroes. Players collect souls by various means, including shooting Soul Orbs released when certain entities die, taking Guardians/Walkers, killing enemy players, and finding Unsecured Souls in boxes or crates. Unsecured souls are added to your total immediately but can drop upon death for other players to collect.
Every player starts the game with 600.
Soul Orbs
Troopers and the Soul Urn release souls in a Soul Orb. These orbs may be shot or hit with melee to confirm (or deny) the souls and grant them to the attacker. If they are not attacked, then the souls will be granted to the killer automatically after around 1 second. Certain abilities like Serrated Knives or Malice can also confirm or deny orbs.
The soul orbs spawn dark-colored, and can only be shot and confirmed once they light up. Ally orbs are green and enemy orbs are orange. Hitting an enemy orb will deny the souls to the killer and grant them to the player who hit it. Orbs can be claimed by a single bullet or pellet, regardless of damage. The bullet that hit the orb is refunded to the player's magazine.
Soul confirmation accounts for latency, which in some situations can cause the player to lose the orb even if they visually seem to have hit it first. The ally team has confirm advantage.
Soul orbs can be divided into "local" and "global" soul orbs:
- Local
- These orbs grant souls to the killer/attacker and are shared with any nearby allies. These are the most common kind of soul orb and are gained from killing Troopers and players
- Global
- These orbs grant souls to the entire team of the player who claims them. These are earned by turning in the Soul Urn
Local Soul Sharing
When souls are to be shared, the game checks two distances to add allied heroes to the "pool" of heroes to split the received souls:
- 45m from the soul orb itself when it is broken
- 30m from the hero that killed the Trooper
If an allied hero is within either of these distances, souls are shared between the killer and those allied heroes.
Soul Well
Inside each team's base, there is a soul well that releases orbs worth 10 souls each. Unlike regular orbs, these orbs only grant souls if they are confirmed, and they can be either green or orange-colored.
Gathering Souls
- Teams with fewer souls will gain more souls from all sources (see Comeback Mechanics below).
Soul Distribution
- Hero kill souls are distributed between nearby players with the following rate:
- 125%/57%/28%/17%/11%/8% (for 1/2/3/4/5/6 players)
- EX: 1000 souls between 4 players would grant each player 170 souls (1000 * 17%)
- 125%/57%/28%/17%/11%/8% (for 1/2/3/4/5/6 players)
- Trooper souls are distributed between nearby players with the following rate:
- 100%/54%/36%/25%/20%/16% (for 1/2/3/4/5/6 players)
- EX: 120 souls between 4 players would grant each player 30 souls (120 * 25%)
- 100%/54%/36%/25%/20%/16% (for 1/2/3/4/5/6 players)
- Before the 2025-04-17 update, two players in the same lane both received 100% of souls before 8 minutes (soul duplication). Now the soul distribution is the same for the entire match, so both players get 54% per Trooper.
- When a Trooper is killed, 60% of the Trooper's souls drop as a ground orb that flies to allies within 18m and remains on the ground for 18 seconds (scaling to 40 seconds after 10 minutes), while the remaining 40% fly out as a deniable soul orb that enemies can shoot. Both orbs use Soul distribution among nearby allies; enemy ground orbs are visible but cannot be claimed. Killing the Trooper with a melee attack grants 100% of the souls instantly, distributed among nearby allies.
Denizens (Jungle Creeps)
- Jungle camps contain Denizens that give souls to players on kill. They do not release soul orbs.
- In order for Denizens to give souls to both players, both players must deal damage to the Denizen.
- Souls from Denizens are split between all allied players who dealt damage to said Denizens.
- Souls from Denizens are unsecured souls
Breakables
- Breaking the wooden crates scattered throughout the map will have a chance to spawn some souls.
- Chance for any given crate to drop souls when broken is approximately 60%
- Amount of souls dropped is a function of in-game time:
- [Souls Dropped] = 23 + 2.0*[Game Time in Minutes]
- For example: At 30:00 game time, a broken crate will drop 83 souls.
Unsecured Souls
Souls earned from killing Denizens and destroying Sinner's Sacrifice machines are unsecured and are lost on death. If a player dies with at least 150 unsecured souls they will be dropped in a Soul Container, which can be claimed by any player by hitting it with a Heavy Melee. Soul Containers will despawn after 3 minutes. These containers are marked with a circle icon on the Minimap and have a green glow effect. If a player dies with fewer than 150 unsecured souls, no Soul Container will drop—they are permanently lost.
Unsecured souls are converted into secured souls over time, meaning they will no longer be dropped on death. This conversion rate is dynamic:
- Percentage Drain: Each second, 0.5% of the player's current unsecured souls are converted. This means larger amounts of unsecured souls secure faster initially.
- Base Drain: In addition to the percentage, a flat amount is secured every second. This starts at 1.6 souls/second and increases as the match progresses (scaling with the global bounty growth of ~8% per minute).
- Example at 10 Minutes: A player carrying 1,000 unsecured souls will secure them at a rate of roughly 7.9 souls/second (5 from percentage + ~2.9 base).
- Example at 20 Minutes: That same player carrying 1,000 unsecured souls will secure them faster, at a rate of roughly 9.2 souls/second (5 from percentage + ~4.2 base), due to the base rate scaling over time.
Unsecured souls may be spent in the shop, but are spent after secured souls. They are indicated by the silver-green ball on the Hero's hip known internally as a Soul Container, as well as in the number on the HUD with a red icon.
On the character UI, the large souls number is the total number of secured and unsecured souls added together.
Leveling Up
Gathering souls will directly "level up" your hero gain skill points, Boons and other upgrades. See leveling up for more information.
Soul Values
- Soul Value: Value of the target at the time = 0m
- Soul Gain: How the value changes over the time of the match, measured in minutes
| Source | Soul Value | Combined Soul Gain (/min) |
|---|---|---|
| Heroes | 250 | +48.75 |
| Trooper | 116Total | +1.16 |
| Small Denizen | 41 | +0.55 |
| Medium Denizen | 68 | +0.91 |
| Large Denizen | 181 | +2.43 |
| Sinner's Sacrifice | 310 | +3.35 |
| Soul Urn* | 1300 Total | +230 |
| Guardian** | 1250 | N/A |
| Walker** | 3500 | N/A |
| Base Guardian** | 1000 | N/A |
| Shrine | 2000 | N/A |
| Weakened Patron | 0 | N/A |
| Crates | 23 | +2.0 |
* Soul gain from Urns is divided among the team. The Courier gets slightly more souls.
** Soul gain from structures is split with 40% given to nearby allied heroes, while 60% is divided amongst the entire team.
Comeback Mechanics
When a team is behind on souls, there are some "comeback mechanics" that come into play to allow the losing team to quickly catch up.
- Killing an enemy Hero will award more souls if your team is behind.
- Killing an enemy Hero that has a Kill Streak will reward a "Bounty" of extra souls.
- The Soul Urn will give 130% additional souls to a team that is behind.
- The losing team gains up to 30% more souls from Troopers, Denizens, Sinner's Sacrifices and Objectives, based on how behind they are (peaks at 20% max net worth difference). The first 3k in net worth difference is ignored.
Catch up Mechanics
Catch up mechanics allow for players with low net worth to catch up to the other players on their team.
- The two players on each team with the lowest net worth have a passive gain of souls per minute (divided to be earned every second) based on the total souls gathered by the team (2% and 1% for the lowest and second-lowest player, respectively). This occurs after laning phase (8 min).
- For example, the lowest player on a team with 100K net worth receives 33,3 souls per second (2000 per minute).
Update history
- Main article: Update historyView the full update history: Souls/Update history
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